Gerry McGovern @gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green
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"Meta recently announced that it is building a 4 million-square-foot AI data center in the state of Louisiana — its biggest ever, with energy needs to match.

AI processing is incredibly power-hungry, and Meta’s AI factory needs 2 GW of electricity, enough to power about one and a half million households. This means building a new natural gas power station nearby at a cost of $5 billion.

Woof! That’s a big bill for Meta, isn’t it?"

fierce-network.com/cloud/op-ed

data center electricity, voltage

Op-ed: Meta sticks Louisianans with the AI electric bill 

It took the U.S. six days to get water to the survivors of Hurricane Katrina in the Superdome in 2005. | Meta recently announced that it is building a 4 million-square-foot AI data center in the state of Louisiana — its biggest ever, with energy needs to match.

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